The Research Behind Equine-Assisted Therapy: Healing for Diverse Populations
1079 words|5.4 min read|Equine-assisted therapy (EAT) has gained increasing recognition as a powerful therapeutic tool, offering emotional and psychological healing for various populations. This form of treatment leverages [...]
Your Horse Knows You’re Dysregulated, But Do You? How Equine-Assisted Therapy Uncovers Hidden Emotions
1040 words|5.2 min read|Horses are highly sensitive animals with extraordinary ability to perceive subtle environmental changes. This sensitivity makes them ideal therapy animals, as their behavior mirrors the [...]
Somatic Awareness: Strengthening Mind-Body Integration Through Equine-Assisted Therapy
934 words|4.7 min read|In our fast-paced, often stressful world, it’s easy to become disconnected from our bodies. We might ignore physical sensations, push through pain or numb ourselves [...]
What is Evidence-Based Treatment and How Does it Work?
591 words|3 min read|At Bluff Augusta, we are dedicated to providing the highest quality care for individuals seeking recovery from addiction. One of the cornerstones of our approach [...]
Holistic Pain Management: An Overview
718 words|3.6 min read|Holistic approaches to alleviating pain consider the whole person—body, mind and spirit—rather than focusing solely on the physical aspect of pain. By combining conventional medical [...]
Move It or Lose It: Exploring Movement-Based Alternatives to Talk Therapy
892 words|4.5 min read|Understanding Talk Therapy: Strengths and Limitations Although therapy and counseling were once stigmatized, it has become much more socially accepted to seek help for mental [...]
Exploring the Connection Between EMDR and Equine-Assisted Therapy
782 words|3.9 min read|What is EMDR Therapy? Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is aimed at helping survivors of trauma process specific memories. It was created to [...]
Benefits of the Horse-Human Connection for Healing Trauma in Recovery
1179 words|5.9 min read|What is Trauma? Trauma is defined as someone’s response to a negative event or tragedy such as an accident, natural disaster or abuse. This could [...]
The Best Holistic Addiction Treatment for Veterans
773 words|3.9 min read|No two addiction cases are identical, and no two addiction treatment plans will be the same. What works for one person might only be half [...]
Holistic Alternatives to MAT for Addiction Treatment
637 words|3.2 min read|Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is the use of medication in addition to counseling and behavioral therapies for the purpose of treating drug and alcohol use disorders. [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to Holistic Addiction Recovery
600 words|3 min read|Holistic refers to an evidence-based, “whole person” approach to healthcare and treatment. While conventional medicine focuses on treating illnesses and conditions as individual diagnoses, holistic [...]